The SIMA board is delighted to announce the appointment of Alex Raupach as CEO. Alex was general manager at the Canberra International Music Festival before delivering government arts and sector development programs for both the ACT Government and the Australia Council for the Arts. He brings insight and relationships across the Australian music sector, particularly […]
A Quite Peculiar Evening Singular Voices: Amanda Brown’s ‘Eight Guitars’ with SnarskiCircusLindyBand City Recital Hall, 30 June 2023 Review by Toby Creswell This was one of those nights that will be talked about for decades to come. For as long as people care about contemporary popular music. Two friends who have been, in very different […]
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The Rions at The Lansdowne Hotel, 2 June 2023 with Big Wheels and Molly Rocket Review and images by Michael Ryan The Lansdowne Hotel, an establishment built upon the uni student crowd, a venue home to independent, Australian artists. The gig was to be performed on the second level. The stairs awaited, a supernatural atmosphere. Curiously […]
The Grand Electric, Redfern – Wednesday 14 June 2023 Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) Sans doute, this was the most fun I’ve had at the theatre in a long time. The team at Strut & Fret delivered a high energy, champagne-fuelled night of hilarious, death-defying, sexy, raunchy cabaret. With the reference in the title, […]
Yazmin Lacey at City Recital Hall 7 June 2023 Review by Joshua Duffy / Photography by Joe Johnson Last week, Wednesday June 7, the City Recital Hall in Sydney was graced with the contemporary R&B and soul of UK’s Yazmin Lacey. Supporting Yazmin was Melbourne producer IJALE and Sydney’s Natalie Slade. This performance celebrated the […]
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra performs the music of Luigi Boccherini and Giovanni Sammartini with guest soloist Elinor Frey (period cellos) at the City Recital Hall – Friday 24 February 2023. Reviewed by Paul Neeson (Arts Wednesday) In a Spanish themed concert, the stage was dressed in vivid red to suit the evening. A lighting bar […]
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Two weeks into our coverage of Sydney World Pride 2023 and Arts Wednesday talks to all singing, all dancing, all acting Kara Zmatiq, a powerhouse live singing drag queen – yes, absolutely no miming here. Kara brings a season of sexy sparkling cabaret performances to Sydney World Pride audiences. Featuring circus and dance acts set […]
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This week we talk to Nick Henderson who is an art historian, curator and archivist at the National Film and Sound Archives. He is also a volunteer committee member, curator and archivist at the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA). Nick has co-curated – as part of Sydney World Pride – four exhibitions using material from the archives “The Party” […]
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It may seem somewhat impertinent to place an obscure composer’s name before one of the most famous composers in the history of the Universe, but that’s the point. Beethoven does not need any help whereas Romberg needs all he can get. Case in point – Romberg’s Wikipedia page has 296 words whilst Beethoven’s contains 13,101 […]
Curved Radio pays tribute to poet, Robert Adamson In this week’s Curved Radio (22 December 2022) we are paying tribute to the great Australian poet and publisher, Robert Adamson, the poet of the Hawkesbury River, who passed recently aged 79 years. Robert joined Gayle Austin on Curved Radio a couple of years back where they […]
My name is Sankein Rai, and I will be undergoing my Year 10 work experience at Eastside Radio. Music has always been one of my main interests, as I have been playing and listening to music for a long time. I applied to Eastside Radio mainly because of its focus on jazz music and my […]
Jacqui Newling returns in the first half hour with Part 6 of Eat Your History and this episode is about curry. Yes, Governor Macquarie served it at a dinner party very early in his rule. However, like other foodstuffs we have learned about, it doesn’t come onto the average household’s table until the invention of […]